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  • December 2020

  • Thu 10

    Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #5: Gifts for the Hard-To-Shop-For

    December 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on gifts for the hard-to-shop-for on your list in this last episode...

  • Fri 11

    Virtual Class: Don George – Fine-Tune Your Travel Tale: Advanced Writing Workshop (via Zoom)

    December 11, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    This workshop is designed for writers who have an already finished travel story of up to 3,000 words that they would like to workshop and...

  • Fri 11

    Zoom Forward! Andrew Fague, Dan Phillips & Pat Zylius

    December 11, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Andrew Fague, Dan Phillips, and Pat Zylius, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series hosted by poet, fiction writer, and...

  • Fri 11

    How to Get Published in Recommended Reading

    December 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    Crowdcast

      About a third of the stories published in Recommended Reading are unsolicited submissions, which share space in the magazine with work by Pulitzer Prize...

    $10
  • Fri 11

    Andrea & Edmund Read You Art Out Loud

    December 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Andrea Passwater's "We Sing" (The Rumpus) and Edmund Zagorin's "Year Are Sentences" (Rabid Oak Review) are out soon in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020....

    $7
  • Sat 12

    Arthur A. Levine on Instagram IGTV!

    December 12, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    reading The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol, a new larger-than-life holiday hero who brings Hanukkah wonder and generosity to anyone in need! "A new, entertaining, and thoughtful...

  • Sat 12

    Eastwind Book Club | She Weeps Each Time You’re Born

    December 12, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to...

  • Sat 12

    Patrick Earl Ryan in conversation with Jewelle Gomez

    December 12, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST
    online

    New Orleans native PATRICK EARL RYAN and writer, icon, and activist JEWELLE GOMEZ discuss writing, queerness, and If We Were Electric Join us for a...

    Free
  • Sat 12

    Conversations with Authors – Jane Smiley (Virtual Event)

    December 12, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Jane Smiley’s latest novel, Perestroika in Paris, is a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris. Jane is...

  • Sat 12

    Safety & The First Amendment – Holiday Fundraiser

    December 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PST
    online

    The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) will host its annual holiday fundraiser online this year and it is dedicated to the intriguing theme of...

  • Sun 13
    Mandomeet

    MandoMeet

    December 13, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST

    Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions, all levels of...

  • Sun 13

    VIRTUAL: Claire Marie Stancek with Dan Beachy-Quick & Jennifer Firestone / wyrd] bird

    December 13, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems, wyrd] bird. She's joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer...

  • Sun 13

    Conversations with Authors – David Harris (Virtual Event)

    December 13, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    David Harris’s newest release, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting, Sallies, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and '70s....

  • Mon 14

    How to Pitch Electric Lit

    December 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    Crowdcast

    For freelancers, writing an essay, feature, or opinion piece doesn’t start when you type the first line. It starts with the pitch. Having a topic...

    $10
  • Mon 14

    Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander: A celebration of Angels & Saints

    December 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Eliot Weinberger, called "one of the world's greatest essayists" by the New York Times, is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander to...

  • Wed 16
    Lynell George

    Alta Asks Live: Lynell George

    December 16, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

    Alta Asks Live: Lynell George Wednesday, December 16 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time Octavia E. Butler’s work is as relevant as ever, and her journey...

  • Wed 16

    Conversations with Authors – Ruby Bridges (Virtual Event)

    December 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    From civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges comes a powerful new book, This Is Your Time—the first book from Bridges in over twenty years, released to coincide...

  • Wed 16

    How to Get Published in The Commuter

    December 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    Crowdcast

    Unlike most literary magazines, The Commuter chooses its weekly piece of poetry, flash, graphic, or experimental narrative almost exclusively from unsolicited submissions—9 out of 10...

    $10
  • Fri 18

    WALTER MOSLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN

    December 18, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Devil in a Blue Dress BY WALTER MOSLEY Mosley’s celebrated 1990 novel introduces readers to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a World War II veteran who turns...

  • Fri 18

    HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jamie Townsend, Topazu, Subset

    December 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST
    online

    Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 Readings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith Introduced by Jamie Townsend Music...

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Elif Shafak

    December 19, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    reading and discussing her new novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World published by Bloomsbury Books ---- This is a virtual event that...

  • Sat 19

    James Sullivan – Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)

    December 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    In conversation with Tom Barbash Thursday, December 19, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly...

  • Sun 20

    “A Christmas Memory” read by Thomas Lynch–virtually

    December 20, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

    BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway's event. This year it will be a bit different, like everything else:...

  • January 2021

  • Sat 2

    Intro to Flash Fiction

    January 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This...

    $22
  • Mon 4

    Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry

    January 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete, poets...

  • Tue 5
    0105 Rest@2x-8

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club

    January 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST Please join us...

  • Tue 5

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club

    January 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

  • Wed 6

    Conversations with Authors – Alex Davies (Virtual Event)

    January 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber,...

  • Wed 6

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    January 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

  • Wed 6

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    January 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

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